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Investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art - in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. This book includes the essays revealing connections between the northern and southern California Conceptual art scenes.Read more...

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, co-organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, held at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Calif., Oct. 9, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 29-June 17, 2012.

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"A pleasure... The curators have written short, elucidating comments for almost everything here, about 150 items. Not only do their words bring individual images to life; but they also add up to an absorbing narrative of a place and an era." -- Holland Cotter New York Times 20130711 "Provocative... Puts pressure on the category of idea-based art through a focus on the body, ritual, media and the social world." -- Gillian Young Art in America 20130711 "While showing a real breadth, and the consistency of various sorts of conceptual thinking, [State of Mind is] in fact very useful in terms of ways in which an artist could reinvent their congenial mediums to express social, political, as well as artistic concerns." -- Phong Bui The Brooklyn Rail 20130715 "Will leave [locals] ... wondering how they failed to notice so much provocative activity - a lot of it very public - when it occurred." San Francisco Chronicle 20120307 "Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss take advantage of [the] outsider position, making use of art's ability to conjure or invent new meanings and contexts." -- Maika Pollack Gallerist NY 20130116 "Makes for conceptual art's continued influence on contemporary art." Public Art Review 20120720 "Informative and well written." Orange County Register 20111209Read more...